TONY. Now you've ruined my life. I hope you're satisfied.
KIKAY (Whirling around). I... have ruined your life? You... have ruined mine!
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TONY (Advancing). What you need is a good spanking.
KIKAY (Retreating). Don't you come near me, you... you Canto Boy!
TONY (Stopping). Don't you worry, I wouldn't touch you with a ten-foot pole.
KIKAY. And I wouldn't touch you with a 20-foot pole.
TONY. Just one year in New York and you forget your old friends!
KIKAY. Just one year that I'm in New York... and what do you do? But when we got engaged, you swore to be true, you promised to wait for me. And I believed you, I believed you! (She begins to weep) Oh, you're fickle, fickle!
TONY. What are you crying about? Be brave... forget... that's the New York way. Nothing must ever be too serious, nothing must ever drag on too long...
KIKAY. Oh Tony, please, please.
TONY. Besides, there could be no more talk of an engagement between us. We don't speak the same language. Marriage between us would be a stark miscegenation! Imagine a New Yorker marrying a Tondo Boy!
KIKAY. Oh Tony, I've been such a fool! I'm so sorry, Tony!
TONY. Well, I'm not! I'm glad I found out what kind of a person you are!
KIKAY (Alarmed, approaching him). Oh Tony, you're wrong, you're wrong! I'm not that kind of person at all!
TONY. Oh, "person" is just a relative term, huh?
KIKAY. Yes, Tony... that was Francesca saying all, those silly things. But Francesca exists no more, Tony. The girl standing before you is Kikay.
TONY. In that silly dress?
KIKAY (Touching her dress). Oh, this is just the gift-wrapping, Tony. But deep down inside me I'm just a little Tondo girl in love with her Tondo boy.
TONY. Well, well, well.
KIKAY. It's true, Tony. I'm Kikay... remember me? We used to go swimming together, when we were kids. I've come back, Tony.
TONY. If I remember right, I was engaged to a girl named Kikay.
KIKAY. Yes, and you're still engaged to her, Tony.
TONY. Welcome home, Kikay! How was the trip?
KIKAY. Horrible! I couldn't wait to get back.
TONY. Like it in New York?
KIKAY. Uh-uh. Give me Tondo anytime.
YOU ARE READING
New Yorker in Tondo
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